Basic Bandsaw boxes

New here at lumber jocks, have been checking out the site for a year or more but never got registered till today. I’d love to have time to work on some more complex projects, but lately that hasn’t happened. Here are a couple of basic bandsaw boxes that I have been working on when i have a spare minute. They will probably turn into Christmas presents. The first is some birch firewood that I spalted haphazardly in a garbage bag last winter. It developed some real cool color. The second is laminated birch and cherry. I applied stain and several coats of wax, not too impressed with the finish but it was easy. I have a couple more that I’m working on, those I’m fighting with some gloss poly.

Bob,I was experimenting with some green turning of some birch firewood that I snagged from a friends pile. It was real fun although they mostly ended in catastrophic failure as I tried to cut too thin or too aggressively. I didn’t want the blanks to dry out so I kept them in a garbage bag in my office. When I never got back to turning I loosened the bag a bit and let them sit inside the partially closed bag for probably six months in my toasty warm office. End result nice spalting. I recently found some box elder logs that I have been experimenting with spalting. They are making my office smell terrible, but some test cuts prove they will look pretty good once they dry out.